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The judge who navigated the Clinton High crisis
A Knoxville News Sentinel piece profiles the judge who steered the Clinton High School desegregation crisis in Tennessee, where in 1956 the school became one of the first in the segregated South to admit Black students amid protests and unrest. The article revisits the judge's role in upholding court-ordered integration and holding the line through a volatile period in the town's history.
Why now: Renewed interest in civil rights history and the judge's pivotal role in one of the first school desegregation crises in the South.
Clinton High SchoolClinton, TennesseeKnoxville News Sentinel
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- The judge who navigated the Clinton High crisis · Knoxville News Sentinel
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